This reminds me of a similar situation about a year where Win7 market share suddenly rose from 2% to 9%. If you dug into the data it showed that it was mostly isolated to Singapore and the data also showed a similar increase in incredibly uncommon display resolutions and such. You could also do some math and would come to the conclusion that the numbers only made sense if the total number of devices in Singapore increased tenfold, with everyone running Win7 for some reason.
Long story short, you could explain this in detail to some people and some still wouldn't accept that this wasn't the return of Win7.
PS: Here's a telling chart with data that wasn't fixed from that time:
Yup. I've heard this first about Home Assistant, but software like this often inadvertently acts like a pacifier for tech enthusiasts. We may have our neat solution for the moment and be content with that, but that doesn't help anyone else, or us in the long term. Things will get worse with no push-back.
Disclaimer: That's not to say that we shouldn't advocate for those tools in the meantime as well. We just shouldn't lose track of the actual problem.
Agree, there's no way this is the whole story. Someone is hiding something. If that isn't the FSFE then I'm guessing that the payment processor set the whole thing up as a flimsy reason for kicking them out with a "justified" cause. As to why, who knows.
Wait, just two weeks ago I was looking for a new GPS logging app and didn't notice that there's now an official (and non-official) dedicated Android app available. I'll have to try it out.
I've been using Dawarich for a while now and the biggest problem was always finding a way to get a good app that can do both accurate, and battery-saving tracking.
Anyway, love the project and seeing it continually improving.
Fully agree on that. Always better to start fully fresh, even without such problems.
That said, it's still important that it will ship pre-installed. That way app-developers who block GrapheneOS cannot excuse their actions anymore by saying that it was your decision to use another OS, and therefore not their problem.
Same. I always find it weird how apparently most people don't make use of their own custom feeds and instead rely on r/all, or, even worse, let what they consume be dictated by an algorithm. And this goes far beyond Reddit. This place, YouTube, Twitter/Bluesky and pretty much any of the big platforms.
Never done this myself, but I believe gamescope should be able to do that? It should be able to run as the primary Wayland compositor and with the right flag you can expose Wayland to the client.
I wish it was only limited to support forums. I've even seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.
Even worse, those stats are also probably just a leftover from a giant spike coming from Singapore around that time:
That one eventually got cleaned up, although a lot of the spillover into other countries remains.
I did some math at the time, and it must've been about 1000 fake machines for every real one. And considering this was kept online for several weeks despite making news: Yes, stop using statcounter.
Oh yeah, Mint is also pretty special. It's pretty good for non-gaming "it just works" purposes, but recommending it blind for gaming is just straight up evil: No Gnome. No KDE. Just three niche DEs that are still mostly stuck on X11. Meaning, that if you want to properly make use any recent monitor features (as in, decade old features) your only option is to switch to another distro.
It's a surefire way to get someone to switch back to Windows.
Depends. This happened at a German conference and I assume that this person is most likely German as well. Probably shouldn't think about getting anywhere close to the US though.
There's still the possibility of facing prosecution in Germany. Not sure how probable that is though.
Pretty good take. IMO, it's also quite ironic that the FSF is pushing the same flawed logic that politicians do when they want to outlaw secure encryption, just for a different (noble) goal.
Em dashes, weird quote marks are always a giveaway
In a random comment or blog? Sure. In a professionally proofread document? No, adding those might as well be part of the job description. After all, the LLMs picked also have to have picked that behaviour up from somewhere.
What I don't understand is why the person that owns the device wrote the following in their blog post:
How could a simple IP block disable a vacuum cleaner that is supposed to work offline as well? - Source
This seems like that device was sold to him as "offline" capable. Where does that claim even come from? From a cursory glance I don't see that product advertised that way anywhere.
Now, I'd be totally in favor that such devices working offline should be the norm, but then again, the person writing the blog should know how these devices currently work.
This reminds me of a similar situation about a year where Win7 market share suddenly rose from 2% to 9%. If you dug into the data it showed that it was mostly isolated to Singapore and the data also showed a similar increase in incredibly uncommon display resolutions and such. You could also do some math and would come to the conclusion that the numbers only made sense if the total number of devices in Singapore increased tenfold, with everyone running Win7 for some reason.
Long story short, you could explain this in detail to some people and some still wouldn't accept that this wasn't the return of Win7.
PS: Here's a telling chart with data that wasn't fixed from that time:
https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/singapore/#monthly-202409-202509
PPS: And the same thing can be observed for this current fluke:
https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/north-america
Apparently it's the year of the 720p Linux desktop.